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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Subject: Booting NetBSD or FreeBSD boot disks fails on my machine
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX
Message-ID: <CCs5Dw.C3s@obiwan.uucp>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1993 13:27:17 GMT
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One of the systems I have here at home that I use as a test victum
hangs whenever I attempt to boot the boot diskettes from either
NetBSD 0.9 or FreeBSD 1.0 GAMMA. On both it gets just past the
first ``insert disk ...'' prompt, issues an ``entry point ...''
message then hangs.
The system configuration is:
386 40mHz w/64KB Cache and 4MB of RAM
SiS chipset w/AMI BIOS
Two IDE drives
An AHA-1542B with 44MB Rodime disk drive and Wangtek 5150ES tape drive
STB Powergraph super VGA adapter with Monochrom VGA display
5.25 and 3.5 diskette drives (A & B, respectively)
This same machine happily runs 386bsd 0.1 (PL 0.2.4).
I am wanting to upgrade my other systems to either FreeBSD or NetBSD
but am reluctant to attempt it till I can first get one or the
other of them running on my test system.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Phone: 512 258-4224 (home)
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